The campaign holds these core beliefs and principles:

1. Freedom from poverty is a human right.
   
2. Education on human rights and access to opportunity is necessary component to removing existing barriers.
   
3. All human rights – civil, political, economic, social and cultural - are indivisible, interrelated and interdependent.
   
4. Inequality and discrimination play a central role in the existence of extreme poverty.
   
5. Those living in extreme poverty must be engaged in the development, adoption and enforcement of policies that grant freedom from poverty.
   
6. Poverty elimination will be progressively realized and is subject to the availability of resources.
   
7. Poverty elimination requires specific, measurable plans and policies.